Cartier and Harper’s Bazaar Celebrate the Return of the Grain de Café Collection

In 1956, Audrey Hepburn wore a pair of Cartier’s Grain de Café earrings on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. As the name suggests, the earrings were inspired by an actual coffee bean—as were all pieces from the Grain de Café collection, which originally launched in 1938 under the creative direction of Jeanne Toussaint. Toussaint believed in finding beauty in the unexpected, so she looked to the humble coffee bean, a product of nature not typically immortalized in gold. Bazaar’s Samira Nasr with Sarah Hoover and Nicola Vassell. Julie Skarratt Photography Guests at the Cartier x Bazaar Grain de Café dinner… Read Full Article